MaroonStain said:
74OA said:
Russia's APC/IFV losses are staggering, so it has resorted to sending half-trained expendable infantry into battle on foot to conserve its armor. Casualties have skyrocketed.
"In May, Russian vehicle losses spiked to a staggering 288 APCs and IFVs, according to analyst Andrew Perpetua, who tallies vehicle losses in Ukraine. "This is only what we could see and count," Perpetua stressed.
The problem for Russia is that its industry can build, or regenerate from long-term storage, just a thousand or so APCs and IFVs a year. That's a quarter of the vehicles the military would need in a year if it continued losing them at the current rate."
MASSACRE
Facts. This goes against the "narrative" that Russia was producing 250 fighting vehicles per month posted earlier in the year by Putin sycophants.
It's difficult to reliably determine quantities for sure month by month.
But now that Russia has clearly been forced to dig deep into its rusty stockpiles of progressively older, less capable and more worn vehicles there's less serviceable materiel to refurbish, fewer un-cannibalized carcasses to strip for parts and new production is nowhere near making up the difference.
Amidst this scenario, Ukraine has just weathered the most dangerous period since the opening months of the war due to a six-month gap in aid shipments. Meanwhile Russia is being steadily attrited, while Ukraine is only now starting to receive operationally meaningful quantities of fresh resupply from the US and EU and should become more militarily resilient.
It's the longer trend that matters and imo it is becoming apparent that Russia is just holding on while Ukraine is getting what it needs to rebuild its strength.